School Days Take a Tour

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Deloro Public School

Sacred Heart Separate School

Deloro Separate School

Marmora Public School

Marmora Herald, dated May 11, 1933

" Reeve F.N Marett and T.W Rind, manager of the Dominion Bank here, went toToronto to interview officials at the Head Office of the Dominion Bank inregard to an increased line of creditfor Marmora Village.

They were successful in their mission and the school teachers will now be paid in full up to "May 1st".

Children's Nursery Centre

The Continuation School1920-1951

Marmora Senior School, built as the High School in 1951

The Township Section Schools

The eight township public schools were referred to as School Sections and were numbered one to ten. There is no reference to schools Number 4 and 9, if they ever existed. In 1964, the board met with the Township Council and decided to close all six of the remaining township schools. In several of the schools the attendance had fallen below the minimum of nine pupils. Shanick Public School had already been closed since November, 1942, and in June, 1948, the Malone Public School was closed.

The Township agreed to pay $1,200.00 a year to Marmora and $800.00 a year to Deloro to have all the children from these township schools bused to Marmora or Deloro for their education.

stewart hardy

Teachers for these early township boards were not rehired if they failed to keep discipline, if parents complained their children were not learning, if health problems arose in the school, or if the destruction of school property exceeded the board's tolerance level.

School caretakers were also hired and fired at random. Their duties included sweeping, mopping, dusting, oiling, cleaning the windows, piling wood into woodsheds, looking after the toilets and lighting the fires. (one hour before school started.) Salaries ranged from $35.00 to $80.00 a year.

On January 1, 1965 a new board combining the Deloro Village and the Marmora & Lake Boards operated under the respective chairmanship of Stewart Hardy and Mrs. William Regan. This board was replaced in January, 1968 when the new Hastings County School system came into effect.

S.S. #5 Beaver Creek Public School (Pt Lot 17, Conc. 4)

(No longer standing, this frame building with insilbrick stood on the site where the Barrons/Lautenbach house now stands, next door to a converted church, now residential)

Glenn Mawer wrote: That's my old school. Joan Chapman [Fox] was my teacher. She did a great job , many memories. Lorilei Wells Mayhew wrote: My grandparents later built their home on the site. John E. Hutchings added: There is where I did grade one and part of grade two and a Mrs Gay was the teacher, I believe.

Signature inside: May and Lizzie Connors, May 16, 1894, S.S. No. 5, Marmora - sisters of Maggie (Connors) Gallagher who was grandmother of Maloneys and McKinnons. May was engaged to Frank Cook - died from gas poisoning in Toronto. Lizzie was in a wheel chair most of her life - did a lot of lovely needlework.

S.S. #6 Malone Public School

As far as can be conjectured, Malone's first school was a log school-house built in 1862. This building, facing south, took shape on the north side of the main road and west of the houselater owned byMiss Ellen Terrion.

It was about the summerof 1875 that a new school was constructed about one mile north-east of the log school-house on land purchased from the late Ed. Nihill for one dollar plus the old school property. "It is recalled of Miss Annie Smith,thefirst teacher in the new school,that on its opening day she paraded the children, two by two ahead. of her from the old building to the new one."

S.S. #8 NORTH MARMORA SCHOOL

Glenn Mawer: In grade 4 ,5 ,6 we used to walk from the Beaver Creek School to that school thru the long swamp for a field with that school. Played games . Never saw them again for another year. Had to be at least 5 miles

Beverly Thompson: My mother went there! Betty Moffatt. I grew up in next concession over.

S.S. #10 Shanick Public School

Annmarie Willman-Sprywrote: That Mrs. Revoy's name was Myrtle & her baby was Pearl.